TQS Word Template

Application Form for Part B

Delivered for the South West by Quality South West

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 1 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 This is the Application Form for colleges and providers applying for assessment for potential certification under the Training Quality Standard. The Form has been designed to allow you to gather together your presentation against each of the Indicators of the Training Quality Standard. To understand fully what these Indicators mean, this form should be used only after familiarising yourself with the Training Quality Standard’s Assessment Guide and Evidence Framework (001-2.2), which you should keep beside you as you develop your application on this form.

Before you use this form to apply you will have registered that you wish to apply through submission of a Registration Form and will have come to an Assessment Agreement with the Management Body. This will have defined the Scope of your application, the costs of assessment and the timescales for completing the process.

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 2 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Application Format

In the pages following, you will find a standard pro forma repeated for each of the Indicators of the Training Quality Standard for Part B (4 Criteria with 10 Indicators). In each case, the Indicator is presented as follows:

The parent Criterion and its scoping statement, to put the Indicator in context The Indicator number, name and its accompanying evaluative Indicator Statement, which scopes the area of your activities you need to describe Space for you to present your submission for the Indicator in support of your application

For more guidance on how you should write your application and what evidence should be presented, the Assessment Guide and Evidence Framework, Section 5.4, Understanding your organisation, should be particularly helpful.

For an application for certification under Part B of the Standard you should ensure that you have obtained the Guidance Notes from the relevant SSC or SSB or other agreed organisation - again, see the Assessment Guide and Evidence Framework for further information.

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 3 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Submitting your Application

This Application Form is a template for you to present your application for certification under the Training Quality Standard. Once it is complete (i.e., once you are satisfied that it gives a full and accurate description of your organisation against the Training Quality Standard), then you should forward it to Quality South West to begin the assessment process. This means e-mailing it to [email protected]

You should be aware that we might make use of your (anonymised) application form in the future to develop training materials. Your application must be completed and submitted within the deadlines agreed in your Assessment Agreement.

Applications need to tell a good but honest story, and one that is credible to a reader without direct experience of your organisation and its approaches. To do this, a good Application should not flannel or spin, but should be descriptive and objective, and made up of evidential statements.

By evidential statements, we mean that each of the claims you make should be stated in terms of verifiable evidence (which could be in document form, or in terms of a clear, understood approach), which can be directly challenged by your Lead Assessor. A bad application relies on assertions of quality backed by anecdotes relating particular examples that cannot be specifically verified by an Assessor’s investigations.

A related point to this is that, in making your Application against each Indicator, credit is not given for citing more evidence sources if these are not relevant to the claims you have made. The Evidence Framework (Section 7) in the Assessment Guide suggests some potential evidence sources, but you should present them only insofar as they support the statements that you have made.

A Lead Assessor will only check evidence where its existence can demonstrably support a specific claim made in the Application, and where the Application refers to it. Further evidence cannot be offered during the Verification Visit. Finally, telling a good story means not expecting the Lead Assessor to know how your organisation operates – avoid obvious jargon, or the use of unexplained acronyms or initials.

Cross referencing is especially helpful in telling your story and, of course, is essential in A.5.0 and B.3.0 in linking the results you’re achieving to the strategies expounded in A.0 and B.0 respectively. You can also use diagrams – process flowcharts, organization charts– if they help you. Finally, make sure to write in sentences, and only use summary bullet points as part of a sentence.

Please ensure that you refer to Appendix B of the Assessment Guide and ensure that your application follows the checklist. Title pages and guidance sections (such as this one) do not count toward the page limit for your application.

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 4 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Applicant Details

Organisation Details

Organisation name: Head office address:

Postcode: Telephone number:

Area of Expertise

Sector Area:

Main Contact Details

Contact name: Job title: Directline number: Email address:

Submission Details

I confirm that this Application has been submitted: Delete as applicable In line with the Assessment Agreement scope, against Yes / No which it will be assessed and verified; Is a true and accurate reflection of our strategy, approaches Yes / No and results in working with employers; Is the basis on which we are seeking certification and we Yes / No accept that no additions can be made; With a complete list of Employer Contact Data; Yes / No With an organisation chart as an Appendix; Yes / No And that all supporting information within the spirit of the Yes / No application checklist will be provided.

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 5 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Date:

Criterion B.0: Strategy Indicator B.0.1: Define Aims This indicator accounts for no points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 6 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.0: Strategy Indicator B.0.2: Define Market This indicator accounts for no points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 7 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.0: Strategy Indicator B.0.3: Define Results This indicator accounts for no points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 8 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.1: Understand Indicator B.1.1: Understand Employers This indicator accounts for 200 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 9 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.1: Understand Indicator B.1.2: Understand Stakeholder This indicator accounts for 150 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 10 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.2: Deploy Indicator B.2.1: Deploy Products and Services This indicator accounts for 140 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 11 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.2: Deploy Indicator B.2.2: Deploy People This indicator accounts for 140 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 12 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.2: Deploy Indicator B.2.3: Deploy Resources This indicator accounts for 70 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 13 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.3: Perform Indicator B.3.0: Achieve Results This indicator accounts for 200 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 14 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641 Criterion B.2: Perform Indicator B.3.1: Achieve Impact This indicator accounts for 100 points

Quality South West, Unit 20 Highnam Business centre, Two Mile lane, Highnam, 15 Gloucestershire GL2 8DN. Telephone: 01452 413641